How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions?

Right or wrong, I have always taken what a component looks like into consideration when making a purchase. I like my components to look good.

Much like when I buy clothes. Fit, comfort and construction are important, but clothing also has to make you feel good when you wear it.

How do you feel about it.

Do you want everything to have a certain synergy of appearance, or are you okay wearing brown shoes with a tuxedo? So to speak.

tony195408-08-2023 2:38am

tvrgeek Details Discussions Posts This discussion 299 posts 08-12-2023 at 01:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Speakers? They have to pass the wife "not in my living room" filter.* Electronics? ZERO In a cabinet. Even when I was 20-ish, I never fell for the big stack to impress anyone. It is all about the sound. Use the money for better circuits. I don't pick on Mac for their style. Their products were always at least good. Decent, well built and durable. That was their market. In the tube days, their transformers rivaled Luxman as the very best. Sound per dollar; Denon, Yamahammer etc. Kenwood made tuners that smoked a Mac. Oh, well Mac speakers were both ugly and terrible. OK, I do like the metal case of my Atom+ amp over the plastic case of my Atom+ DAC? Yea as they sit on my desk, but is it worth $10? Well, I can buy a handful of 69 cent CDs from Goodwill and get far more music listening from that. Do add value to the billet machined block a Quetest comes in? No. I would rather pay $500 less for plastic. * Vetoed the 2Ce's. Only stand mount are acceptable.
tvrgeek Details Discussions Posts This discussion 299 posts 08-12-2023 at 02:16pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Tony, an advantage of being retired and grey haired, is we can get away being a crumedgon so brown shoes, or blue sneakers, with a tux are just fine as long as my feet don't hurt. :)